When Alasdair Macleod started www.FinanceAndEconomics.org he wanted to educate decision-makers and other interested people in finance and economics. Through his unique coverage, Alasdair was all about helping clients make informed risk assessments about current economic events and their likely outlook. Now, his goals have expanded. Through his recent association with The Goldmoney [...]]]>

from FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com:

When Alasdair Macleod started www.FinanceAndEconomics.org he wanted to educate decision-makers and other interested people in finance and economics. Through his unique coverage, Alasdair was all about helping clients make informed risk assessments about current economic events and their likely outlook. Now, his goals have expanded. Through his recent association with The Goldmoney Foundation, Alasdair’s seeking to educate the public about the causes of today’s global economic calamity as well as the possible solutions to it. In this interview, Alasdair makes an extremely articulate case for sound money and the end of the Welfare/Warfare state. Hopefully his words will reach the many people suffering the disastrous effects of Keynesianism and ignorant economic policy.

Click here to listen to Kerry Lutz and Alasdair Macleod

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My Take: This Op Ed was in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago and I can’t believe I missed it. The content of it is so aggressively in favor of the gold standard and so anti the status quo it boggles the mind. It’s hard for me to believe [...]]]>

from Liberty Blitzkrieg

My Take: This Op Ed was in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago and I can’t believe I missed it. The content of it is so aggressively in favor of the gold standard and so anti the status quo it boggles the mind. It’s hard for me to believe that the former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has only just now figured out what fraud and theft fiat money is. More likely, he is politically astute enough to recognize that this game is over and he is trying to position himself as one of the “good guys” to be prominent in the aftermath of this gigantic nightmare financial system we are subjected to. Nevertheless, it is an important signpost because he represents another establishment player jumping ship before it sinks to the bottom of the sea. If we are going to keep Guantanamo Bay open, we may as well save some cells for bankster gangster Jaime Dimon and all of the others that are consciously stealing from the pockets of 99.9% of America through their giant ponzi scheme and Fed bailouts.

Read More @ LibertyBlitzkrieg.com

With continued turmoil in global equity markets, gold trading near $1,540 and silver around $27, today King World News interviewed legendary technical analyst, Louise Yamada, of LYA Advisors, to see where she sees stocks, gold, silver, oil and the US dollar headed. Yamada’s service had been correctly bearish stocks at the top. [...]]]>

from KingWorldNews:

With continued turmoil in global equity markets, gold trading near $1,540 and silver around $27, today King World News interviewed legendary technical analyst, Louise Yamada, of LYA Advisors, to see where she sees stocks, gold, silver, oil and the US dollar headed. Yamada’s service had been correctly bearish stocks at the top. When asked how she knew global markets would take a hit, Louise replied: “Well, first of all, this has been a very slow erosion over a period of one year. We got the long-term ‘sell’ signals on these markets in the spring of 2011. We then had the steep decline in 2011. After the big move off the lows, demand suggested we did not have what it took to take the markets higher, and then we began to see distribution.”

Louise Yamada continues @ KingWorldNews.com

LONDON: World Gold Council in it’s report said first quarter demand for ETFs and similar products totalled 51.4t, equivalent to a value of $2.8billion.

According to Gold Demand Trends report of the WGC the increase is in stark contrast to the first quarter of 2011, when the sector witnessed net outflows.

Jim welcomes back Joe Dancy to discuss the energy markets. Joe sees the completion of new pipeline projects in Texas narrowing the spread between WTIC and Brent crude, which could lead to price hikes in gasoline prices. Joe also expects crude oil and food prices to remain highly [...]]]>

by James J. Puplava, Financial Sense:

Jim welcomes back Joe Dancy to discuss the energy markets. Joe sees the completion of new pipeline projects in Texas narrowing the spread between WTIC and Brent crude, which could lead to price hikes in gasoline prices. Joe also expects crude oil and food prices to remain highly correlated, and up-trending over the next several years, which should be a very positive environment for companies in both sectors.

Click Here to Listen to the Audio

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Chinese demand for gold hit a record in the first quarter of 2012, according to the World Gold Council (WGC).

Chinese demand for jewellery and gold as an investment hit 255.2 tonnes in the period, helped by purchases during the Chinese New Year holiday.

The WGC said inflation and restrictions on the [...]]]>

from, BBC.co.uk:

Chinese demand for gold hit a record in the first quarter of 2012, according to the World Gold Council (WGC).

Chinese demand for jewellery and gold as an investment hit 255.2 tonnes in the period, helped by purchases during the Chinese New Year holiday.

The WGC said inflation and restrictions on the property market were likely to boost demand further.

But overall, global demand fell 5% to 1,097.6 tonnes, which the WGC blamed on a sharp rise in gold prices.

The average price of gold was $1,690.57 per ounce in the first quarter, which was 22% higher than the first quarter of 2011

Read More @ BBC.co.uk

The World Gold Council has released the Q1 2012 Gold Demands Trend report.

Gold demand grew 16% over the past 12 months to 1,098 tonnes. This had a US dollar value of just $59.7 billion spent on gold, globally, in Q1 2012.

While global demand was down 5% from the [...]]]>

from Gold Core:

The World Gold Council has released the Q1 2012 Gold Demands Trend report.

Gold demand grew 16% over the past 12 months to 1,098 tonnes. This had a US dollar value of just $59.7 billion spent on gold, globally, in Q1 2012.

While global demand was down 5% from the record high of Q4 2011, it was significantly higher than demand in Q1 2011 suggesting that global demand may be consolidating at these higher levels.

Investment demand again dominated as under owned gold continues to be diversified into and accumulated globally.

Gold investment demand (all demand for gold bars, coins and ETFs and similar products) grew by 13% year-on-year to 389.3 tonnes in Q1 2012, equating to a demand value of just US $21.2 billion.

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One of gold’s greatest powers is that it is a unit of account which cannot be fudged nearly as easily as the fiat all-you-can-print buffet.

Feel like your wages are buying less in real terms?

They are:

Feel like your dollar is buying less, even though the financial press claims that [...]]]>

from Azizonomics:

One of gold’s greatest powers is that it is a unit of account which cannot be fudged nearly as easily as the fiat all-you-can-print buffet.

Feel like your wages are buying less in real terms?

They are:

Feel like your dollar is buying less, even though the financial press claims that the dollar is strong?

It is buying less — but so are the other fiat currencies:

Read More @ Azizonomics.com

So, in today’s news we have Greek bank runs (again), remnants of JP Morgan yield grab gone bananas, and European Banks Battered As Reality Sets In. I know there has to be at at least a small contingent of you who truly don’t want to hear me say “I told you [...]]]>

by Reggie Middleton, BoomBustBlog.com:

So, in today’s news we have Greek bank runs (again), remnants of JP Morgan yield grab gone bananas, and European Banks Battered As Reality Sets In. I know there has to be at at least a small contingent of you who truly don’t want to hear me say “I told you so”. Well, guess what I have to say to that small contingent…

Better yet guess what very popular American bank has their fingers in all three of the fires fanning above? You see, I not only warned of a European bank collapse nearly three years ago, I actually went on a European banking collapse tour throughout, of all places, Europe!

Read More @ BoomBustBlog.com

After being immersed in the world of alternative economic analysis for several years, it sometimes becomes easy to forget that most people do not track forex markets, or debt to GDP ratio, or true unemployment, or hunch over IMF white-papers highlighting subsections which expose the trappings of the globalist [...]]]>

by Brandon Smith, Activist Post

After being immersed in the world of alternative economic analysis for several years, it sometimes becomes easy to forget that most people do not track forex markets, or debt to GDP ratio, or true unemployment, or hunch over IMF white-papers highlighting subsections which expose the trappings of the globalist ideology. Sometimes, you just assume the average person knows what the heck you are talking about. This is, of course, a mistake. However, it is a mistake that is borne from the inadequacy of our age and our culture, and is not necessarily a product of weak character, either of the analyst, or the casual reader.

The great frustration of being actively involved in the Liberty Movement is the fact that many people are rarely on the same page (or even the same book) during political and economic discussion. Where we see the nature of the false left/right paradigm, they see “free democracy”.

Read More @ Activist Post

Israel’s long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below.

In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected. Israel had been secretly developing, producing and stockpiling nuclear weapons for [...]]]>

by Stephen Lendman, SJLendman.Blogspot.com:

Israel’s long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below.

In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected. Israel had been secretly developing, producing and stockpiling nuclear weapons for years.

Experts called his information genuine. They revealed sophisticated technology able to amass a formidable nuclear arsenal. Today it’s more potent than ever.

In his 1991 book titled “The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and America Foreign Policy,” Seymour Hersh discussed its strategy to launch massive nuclear counterattacks in response to serious enough threats.

Read More @ SJLendman.Blogspot.com

Don’t you wish that someone had told you the truth before you went to college? Don’t you wish that someone had told you that college has become a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money out of students and parents as possible? Yes, college [...]]]>

from The American Dream:

Don’t you wish that someone had told you the truth before you went to college? Don’t you wish that someone had told you that college has become a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money out of students and parents as possible? Yes, college can be a profitable endeavor if you pick your field of study wisely, if you can get someone else to pay for at least some of it and if you can actually get a good job in that field when you graduate. But most high school students are never told to weigh the pros and the cons before they run off to college. The typical high school student is simply told to get into the “best school” that he or she can and to take out whatever loans are “necessary” to pay for that education. Our high school students are assured that those student loans will be paid back easily once they get “good jobs” following graduation. But the truth is that there are some other things that high school students should be told before they go off to college as well. They should be told that student loan debt can cripple them financially for decades. They should be told that the quality of education at most U.S. colleges and universities is a total joke. They should be told that most college graduates do not get a “good job” once they graduate these days. They should be told that after they receive their diplomas they are likely to end up flat broke, waiting tables and living with their parents.

Read More @ EndOfTheAmericanDream.com